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(No Model.)

W. I. GLOUS.

IRONING BOARD. No. 336,698. Patented Feb. 23, 1886.

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: tormy UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM I. OLOUS, OF READING, PENNSYLVAXIA.

lRONING BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No 336,698, dated February 23, 1886.

Application filed July 9, 1825. Serial No. 171,099. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM I. CLoUs,'a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in IroningBoards and their Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement is more particularly related to that class of ironing-boards which, when in use, are attached to or connected with some other article of household use.

The improvement is applicable to all ironing-boards, tables, or other articles which it is desirable to have occasionally or permanently attached to some rigid object, and at the same time, when desired, may be at once disconnected.

The above objects are attained in the useof the improvements shown in the accompanying drawings, like letters of reference indicating like parts.

Figure 1 represents a board perspectively as arranged in front of a window and attached thereto; Fig. 2, a reverse plan of the board, showing my improved locking and releasing device attached thereto; Fig. 8, a side elevation of' a board with the improvement attached; Fig. 4, a detail of the locking and re leasing device.

A represents an ironing-board; B, a supporting-leg; G, the leghinge; D, D, and E, a braceconnection between the leg and board; F, a cleat, G, a fixed strap with a shouldered pivot end, G, secured to the cleat F by screws G A movable strap, H, fulcrumed at H upon the cleat, is also provided with a shouldered pivot end, H A cam, I, provided with a thumb-piece pivoted at I, is set withits center of motion at such distance from the strap II that when said cam is curving outwardly,

with the tail of the strap H resting against its body, the fixed shouldered pivot Gwill interlock with its eye J, and the pivot H will swing in between clear of the eye J. The

turn of the cam I, )ressing on the tail of the strap H and entering the shouldered pivot H" within its eye J, securely locks the board to the eyes, the cam being so arranged relative to the piece H that when the latter has its pivot engaged with its eye a line drawn through the center of the cam and the center of its pivot will be nearly at right angles with the strap H, thus removing all tendency to automatically release itself.

The straps may be constructed cheaply ofmalleable iron, the eyes being the ordinary wire screweyes regularly sold in the hardware stores.

The boards maybe arranged torest upon the sill of and in front of the window in the room, it being a desirable position for the same, by inserting the eyes .in the facing below the sill, as shown, the cleat F being set back from the end of the board to permit the lap upon the sill. The board may, however, be used at any point in the room, as desired, a block, K, being pern'ianently secured at such points, and the eyes J J being screwed therein for connect-ion with the board.

If desired, a spring, L. may be secured to the eleat with its free end in contact with the strap H, sothat on release of pressure from the cam the resilience of the spring will force the pivot H out of connection with its eye J, and the board will at once be free. The majority of users will be satisfied to release the board by hand, first reversing the movement of the cam, which leaves the strap H free, then pulling upon the same to withdraw the pivot H from the eye J.

Having shown my improvement and described its use and advantages, I desire to claim as follows:

As an improved fastener for ironingboards and analogous articles, a fulcrumed piece, H, provided with a shouldered pivotal end, H fulcrunied at H upon the cleat, and releasably locked by contact with the cam I, provided with a thumbpiece, in combination with the spring L, the fixed piece G, its piv-v otal end G, and the screw-eyes J J, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 

